I don't know about any of these... but I do know I tried to install Windows 8.1 Enterprise through Bootcamp on my 2011 iMac, and all I got was a black screen with a big blue new Windows logo floating in the center.

... I tried to install Windows 8.1 Enterprise through Bootcamp on my 2011 iMac, and all I got was a black screen with a big blue new Windows logo floating in the center.

All I want is a trial version of Windows 8.1 for bootcamp...

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There is nothing wrong with a Windows logo showing while the Win 8.1 installer loads files. This may take a long while (up to 10-15 minutes) especially if you use a DVD for install, and you just need to be patient. Eventually you'll see a turning circle to indicate it's making progress and almost ready for the next step. If I remember correctly, Win 7 installer shows a white progress bar and Win 8 shows a turning circle while loading files, but Win 8.1 installer doesn't show any progress of reading files until the very end.

There is nothing wrong with a Windows logo showing while the Win 8.1 installer loads files. This may take a long while (up to 10-15 minutes) especially if you use a DVD for install, and you just need to be patient. Eventually you'll see a turning circle to indicate it's making progress and almost ready for the next step. If I remember correctly, Win 7 installer shows a white progress bar and Win 8 shows a turning circle while loading files, but Win 8.1 installer doesn't show any progress of reading files until the very end.

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Oh, WOW! I was so confused... it was just a big blue new Windows logo on a black screen and I didn't hear my computer working or the CD spinning or anything happening on the screen, so I just cancelled the whole process. But if I just need to wait longer, I'll totally try that!

However... I was trying to instatll Windows 8.1 ENTERPRISE edition... would that have worked in bootcamp? I thought the Enterprise version wouldn't work.

I installed Windows 8.1 right away from Mavericks and Boot Camp. However, now I'm not so sure this was a good idea. Windows 8.1 is pretty buggy, don't know if it's old boot camp drivers or Windows 8.1 itself. I'm getting some occational memory read errors, problem with the USB bus, a few random program crashes. I dunno, knowing Microsoft, I should probably have waited with installing Windows 8.1 a few weeks. I'm hoping that Windows 8.1 doesn't end up corrupting data on my SSD....

Oh, WOW! I was so confused... it was just a big blue new Windows logo on a black screen and I didn't hear my computer working or the CD spinning or anything happening on the screen, so I just cancelled the whole process. But if I just need to wait longer, I'll totally try that!

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Did you get the black screen after installing Apple's Windows support software? The same thing happened to me when I did this. It turns out you need to run the driver setup.exe as administrator in Windows 7 compatibility mode.

Bear in mind this was with vanilla Windows 8. Not sure if anything is different with 8.1, and I'm not about to find out.

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